Talk:Canal+
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This subject needs some splitting and sorting. Today, this page handles the group, several television channels etc. I propose that the information gets splitted and moved:
- Canal+ (or possibly Canal+ France) will be about the French television channel
- Groupe Canal+ (or Canal+ Group) will be about the group and all its arms
- Canal+ Netherlands and Canal+ Spain will be about the channels in the respective countries
What does the community think? Väsk 16:55, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
- I Agree, but canal+ should also explain Canal+Hi-tech,Thewikipedian 11:25, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
- I've mentioned Canal+ Hi-tech on the new page. Now, this page is describing the French channel, but I've included a section about the European sisters so that they can be found easily. I'm storing the remaining parts from the previous page here temporarly. Väsk 13:47, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
| Groupe Canal+ SA | |
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| Type | Subsidiary of Vivendi, a public company |
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| Founded | 1983 |
| Headquarters | Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France |
| Key people | Bertrand Meheut (President & CEO) Rodolphe Belmer (Deputy CEO) |
| Industry | Media |
| Products | Pay TV Television production Film production & distribution |
| Revenue |  €3.580 billion EUR (Y/E 31.12.04) |
| Slogan | "" |
| Website | http://www.canalplusgroup.com |
Canal Plus Group (Canal+) is a French film and television studio and distributor. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi and has a film library in excess of 5,000 films. Vivendi has sold some parts of Canal Plus to private investors which are still using the name of Canal Plus. It is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris.
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[edit] Corporate divisions
- Canal+ SA (49%) — Premium & theme channels; the Netherlands, Poland, France and Spain
- StudioCanal — a feature film production and distribution studio
- CanalSat (66%)
[edit] Canal+
In the Netherlands, Poland, France and Spain the flagship product is a television channel, Canal+. The channel is encrypted for most of the day (except in Spain); viewers who wish to watch the channel's more popular programming (new-release movies and live sport) must subscribe to the service. Previously this involved the hire of a decoder to decrypt the signal, but increasingly Canal+ is being offered as part of a multi-channel satellite or cable television package (known as CanalSat[previously Canal Satellite]in France and Digital+ in Spain).
Canal Plus came to the Nordic countries in 1997, acquiring the two FilmNet-channels and renaming them. The Nordic part was sold in October 2003 and the Canal+ brand is since then used with license.
[edit] StudioCanal
- Main article: StudioCanal
[edit] CanalSat
- Main article: CanalSat
Formerly Canal Satellite Numérique, a pay satellite and ADSL television distributor (as CanalSAT DSL).
Here's another question. How do people in the DOM-TOM get Canal+? -DanCBJMS via 134.117.168.238 18:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
